After too many days of ground-cracking hot weather and lack of rain, thirsty trees in our woods are lifting up their leafy arms in what must be thanks to their Creator. How silly, you may think. But I do believe that they are. For God is doing right now what no human agency can -- send heaven-sized buckets of cool, refreshing rain.
I can almost hear them saying, "Praise be to God on high!" And so am I.
As a student of Christian Science, which is a practical way of life and encourages its adherents to turn to God in prayer in all the challenges of daily life, I have prayed about extremes in weather before, making sincere efforts to carry out what the following words from the Old Testament point out:
"I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields."
(Job 5:8-10)
